I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time

Gosh labour (and the country) are so screwed.

I think it is a display of deliberate disrespect. "Hey look how relaxed I am even though you're trying to threaten me."

'Culture of non-transparency' over FOIs at Bristol City Council Figures show answering FOI requests on time has barely improved since a 2024 enforcement notice.

Twat with hat has opinions. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“Footage, obtained by the outlet, captured the musician face-down in the mud, with her instrument about two feet to her left, struggling as what appears to be a federal agent straddled her backside. A police officer stood next to the pair.”
The Feds then jailed her across state lines. For music.

If it wasn’t incredibly obvious before that X revenue sharing is treated as a slush fund for Elon to funnel cash to his future baby mommies and favorite right wing influencers, it is explicit now.

Imagine that

She Pushed to Overturn Trump’s Loss in the 2020 Election. Now She’ll Help Oversee U.S. Election Security. Heather Honey has been appointed to a senior position in the Department of Homeland Security. State election officials and voting experts are concerned.

Heather Honey, a high-profile denier of Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election, was appointed to a senior DHS position in which she’ll help oversee election security.

“DHS now appears poised to become a primary amplifier of false election conspiracies pushed by our enemies,” one expert said.

I need your help! I’m talking at #NewScientistLive on Oct 18th about why health information is so confusing and wanted to use some examples of stories or content you’ve seen that left you feeling LESS sure about the topic! Paracetamol & pregnancy obvious recent one. Any others? 🙏🏽
@newscientist.com

Younger veteran: "How old are you, man?"

Older veteran: “87.”

Younger veteran: “Out here getting arrested, raising hell at 87.”

Older veteran: “It’s just beginning.”

🦅 🦅 🦅 #ResistanceUnited 🔥 🔥 🔥

"Sometimes, the best thing you can do for a friend, is take a bite out of his best flipper." - Dolphin proverb, according to Larry Niven.

(though I cannot find the original)

And their music is too loud!

Please can you explain to an older person, what do those things even do? Just change the appearance of discord?

John Cole of Balloon Juice has a way with words.

All hell is about to be unleashed on people utterly unprepared to discern truth from falsehood.

It's just so dumb. I hate that it's so incredibly dumb. It's like waking up in Nazi Germany but the official march is Yakity Sax and instead of Hugo Boss the ss is wearing golf outfits around town. It somehow makes it all worse.

One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."

It was a better source of amusement twenty years ago.

To be fair, we're kind of desperate over here.

Headline from the New York Times, 1939: “Goebbels ends careers of five “Aryan“ actors who made witticisms about the Nazi regime.”

www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

YouTube video by Ryan George We Live In The Dumbest Timeline

aka The Dumbest Timeline
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nfb...

The messages allegedly inscribed on the bullet casings from the Charlie Kirk shooting:

"Notices bulges OwO, what's this?"
"Hey fascist! Catch!"
"Oh bella ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao ciao ciao"
"If you read this, you are gay LMAO."

via Jake_Hanrahan on twitter.

Since WW2, 19 seats in Westminster have been won with less than 30% of the vote. Ten of those were last year. They'll be a lot more next time.

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"There is no place in America for political violence, it's just not how we are." say the same pundits who have spent months both-sidesing increasingly ubiquitous, institutionally driven political violence.

a barrister walks past a graffitied wall: a protester on the ground, placard in hand, and a judge looming over with a gavel in hand, blood spattered

it's a banky www.instagram.com/p/DOVoHlVDMIU/